Jade Cargill
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I'm talking very specific to Martin Lawrence here.
Because we know that he wrote on the show.
We know that a lot of it was improv.
We know that a lot of it was him throwing his comedy into it.
So do we think that Martin Lawrence is a colorist?
Because that's what we would be saying here.
I think that throughout the... I don't think it's as black and white as that.
I think that colorism has been so embedded in our society that somebody might not be a bad person for contributing stereotypes to different colors and different shades of black.
because that's just so embedded in our society.
The same way that dark-skinned women are automatically labeled as aggressive, more aggressive, and light-skinned women are labeled as softer.
Even if no one says it out loud, this has been a societal thing for forever.
It's embedded in society.
It's an automatic thought.
And unless you're super hyper aware of the things that you're thinking and the way that you're moving, you wouldn't even know because it's just always been like that.
So I understand what Ari is saying.
I don't think it's specific to Martin and I didn't get offended by what was going
I don't think nobody has ever got offended by that.
But like I said, she's not the first person to bring that up.
There is nothing manly about Tashina Arnold.